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(IsraelNN.com) The Iranian legal affairs advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the French Banque Populaire has released funds that had been seized. France has not confirmed or denied the Iranian news agency report.

"In the past, the United States and the Zionist regime had enacted illegal laws which ran counter to international law to encourage their nationals to lodge unfounded and baseless financial charges against our country's officials," said the advisor, Majid Jafarzadeh. He added that "due to hard efforts of the Iranian judiciary officials, their plots failed and resulted in the issuance of a verdict...that nullified all these baseless accusations and unfounded charges."